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Your Signature Theme Report

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 03-11-2021

DON CLIFTON

Father of Strengths Psychology and

Inventor of CliftonStrengths

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Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are
those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to
meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.

A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an
awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind
your consistent successes.

Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order
revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your "top five."

Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By
focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build
them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance.

Restorative
You love to solve problems. Whereas some are dismayed when they encounter yet another breakdown,
you can be energized by it. You enjoy the challenge of analyzing the symptoms, identifying what is wrong,
and finding the solution. You may prefer practical problems or conceptual ones or personal ones. You may
seek out specific kinds of problems that you have met many times before and that you are confident you
can fix. Or you may feel the greatest push when faced with complex and unfamiliar problems. Your exact
preferences are determined by your other themes and experiences. But what is certain is that you enjoy
bringing things back to life. It is a wonderful feeling to identify the undermining factor(s), eradicate them,
and restore something to its true glory. Intuitively, you know that without your intervention, this thing—this
machine, this technique, this person, this company—might have ceased to function. You fixed it,
resuscitated it, rekindled its vitality. Phrasing it the way you might, you saved it.

Achiever
Your Achiever theme helps explain your drive. Achiever describes a constant need for achievement. You
feel as if every day starts at zero. By the end of the day you must achieve something tangible in order to
feel good about yourself. And by “every day” you mean every single day—workdays, weekends, vacations.

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No matter how much you may feel you deserve a day of rest, if the day passes without some form of
achievement, no matter how small, you will feel dissatisfied. You have an internal fire burning inside you. It
pushes you to do more, to achieve more. After each accomplishment is reached, the fire dwindles for a
moment, but very soon it rekindles itself, forcing you toward the next accomplishment. Your relentless need
for achievement might not be logical. It might not even be focused. But it will always be with you. As an
Achiever you must learn to live with this whisper of discontent. It does have its benefits. It brings you the
energy you need to work long hours without burning out. It is the jolt you can always count on to get you
started on new tasks, new challenges. It is the power supply that causes you to set the pace and define the
levels of productivity for your work group. It is the theme that keeps you moving.

Intellection
You like to think. You like mental activity. You like exercising the “muscles” of your brain, stretching them in
multiple directions. This need for mental activity may be focused; for example, you may be trying to solve a
problem or develop an idea or understand another person’s feelings. The exact focus will depend on your
other strengths. On the other hand, this mental activity may very well lack focus. The theme of Intellection
does not dictate what you are thinking about; it simply describes that you like to think. You are the kind of
person who enjoys your time alone because it is your time for musing and reflection. You are introspective.
In a sense you are your own best companion, as you pose yourself questions and try out answers on
yourself to see how they sound. This introspection may lead you to a slight sense of discontent as you
compare what you are actually doing with all the thoughts and ideas that your mind conceives. Or this
introspection may tend toward more pragmatic matters such as the events of the day or a conversation that
you plan to have later. Wherever it leads you, this mental hum is one of the constants of your life.

Input
You are inquisitive. You collect things. You might collect information—words, facts, books, and
quotations—or you might collect tangible objects such as butterflies, baseball cards, porcelain dolls, or
sepia photographs. Whatever you collect, you collect it because it interests you. And yours is the kind of
mind that finds so many things interesting. The world is exciting precisely because of its infinite variety and
complexity. If you read a great deal, it is not necessarily to refine your theories but, rather, to add more
information to your archives. If you like to travel, it is because each new location offers novel artifacts and
facts. These can be acquired and then stored away. Why are they worth storing? At the time of storing it is
often hard to say exactly when or why you might need them, but who knows when they might become
useful? With all those possible uses in mind, you really don’t feel comfortable throwing anything away. So
you keep acquiring and compiling and filing stuff away. It’s interesting. It keeps your mind fresh. And
perhaps one day some of it will prove valuable.

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Focus
“Where am I headed?” you ask yourself. You ask this question every day. Guided by this theme of Focus,
you need a clear destination. Lacking one, your life and your work can quickly become frustrating. And so
each year, each month, and even each week you set goals. These goals then serve as your compass,
helping you determine priorities and make the necessary corrections to get back on course. Your Focus is
powerful because it forces you to filter; you instinctively evaluate whether or not a particular action will help
you move toward your goal. Those that don’t are ignored. In the end, then, your Focus forces you to be
efficient. Naturally, the flip side of this is that it causes you to become impatient with delays, obstacles, and
even tangents, no matter how intriguing they appear to be. This makes you an extremely valuable team
member. When others start to wander down other avenues, you bring them back to the main road. Your
Focus reminds everyone that if something is not helping you move toward your destination, then it is not
important. And if it is not important, then it is not worth your time. You keep everyone on point.

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